After Mr. Zhao left, Anna could clearly see her husband's melancholy expression on his face, and Gawain held his hands behind his back and watched the candle flame in front of him, the flame of which continued to blur and expand in his eyebrows until it dyed his beautiful pale blue eyes pink. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"There's a really dangerous enemy on the other side of the Oxus." Gawain clenched his fists and turned back to his wife in a hoarse tone.

At this time, there were only the two of them left in the entire imperial camp, the spring breeze was blowing outside, and the little sunfish slept in another camp, and from her husband's tone, Anna could hear the urgency of his mood, so she took Gawain's hands, "No matter what, you can join forces with Seljuk to deal with it." ”

"I'm afraid that behind this group of forces is the Emperor Song Empire as Zhao Zhao said...... Anna, how many people do you say our country has now? ”

"Together with the newly conquered Mosya, Savoy, Macedonia, Thessalonica, and Thessaly, the population is eight million." Without thinking, Anna knew it well.

"That Emperor Song from the distant land of Seris has a population ten times or more than ours." Gawain was worried, after all, he knew much more about this country than Anna, "If this group of nomadic barbarians was expelled to the vicinity of the Amu Darya River by the powerful Imperial Song Empire, then it is likely that we will be in a very difficult situation. ”

Gawain faintly knew in his heart that there were too many strong people in this world, and he could revive the original declining Eastern Roman Empire from scratch, and it took about ten years to seize the Empress of Ten Thousand Cities, controlling a population of nearly 10 million, above the Western countries (in contrast, Hungary was also a regional tyrant at that time, but the population was just over one million), the situation could be regarded as smooth, and in the next ten years, he could completely pacify half of Italy to the west and reoccupy Sicily, the hub of maritime transportation; To the north, it can destroy Venice, the cancer of the empire, and vassalize Hungary, Wallachia, and Rus'; To the east, he could bulldoze the entire region of Alan and Georgia to clear the local Crescent forces, control the Derbent Pass, and resist the invasion of the northern barbarians; To the south, he could also contact the mysterious Christian kingdom in East Africa and destroy Fatimid Egypt.

However, the sudden chaos in the east caught him off guard, and he could not help but sigh at the impermanence of fate - whether it was the khanate of the Qarakhanid or the Shah of Khorezm, it is said that they all began to move closer to Isfahan, the former had always been hostile to the Seljuks, while the latter was a loyal vassal of the Seljuks, but at this moment they were all forced by the pressure of the east and began to migrate helplessly.

Qarakhanid and Khorezm Shah were oppressed by the mysterious barbarian group, and behind the mysterious barbarian group, they may be chasing the military horses of the mysterious Emperor Song Empire: the other party may also have fought the chicken blood of "reforming the old and making the new", and revived the empire as the "iron-blooded strong Song" like himself, which really made the "strong captives disappear", and the other party's basic plate is much stronger than their own, after all, the population and territory are not in the same order of magnitude.

From Asia to Europe, it has been like a terrible domino since ancient times.

So Gawain may really want to join forces with Seljuk to fight against the "Eastern Power" after the capture of Durazo, not because he has a good relationship with Seljuk, but because Gawain knows very well that he is extremely strong against the West, and weak against the East, and the cards of Seljuk are no better than those of Isfahan, "Two weak against one strong is the eternal law in game science." Anna, the most dangerous moment is coming, but no matter what, I will face it bravely out of the sacred duty on my shoulders. As long as I have you and the children by my side, I will never have any fear of gods and ghosts. Gawain finally said this to his wife.

"Of course I can understand you, so let me come to the Imperial Capital to revitalize internal affairs and commerce, contact all possible allies, and raise your children. And the big barbarian, you can go out with peace of mind, even if you don't come back for a year, it doesn't matter, that female fox is serving you on the couch of the Eastern battlefield, and I will no longer complain. Anna burst into tears and threw herself into her husband's arms, grinding her ears against each other's broad and strong chests, "Because we have long agreed to cultivate a new era of Romana......

Touching his wife's black hair, Gawain's eyes turned back to the candlelight, and returned to a cold blue, "Capture Durazo, sweep Moses, and then pour the power of the whole country to make cutting-edge firearms, and go to the Persian plateau to see and see." If I can safely triumph from the East, then Anna - there will be no more enemies in this world who can defeat us both! ”

On the third of April, when the morning star was lonely and the night sky was inky, more than 10,000 defenders gathered in front of the long bridge of Durazo, and quietly lined up in array with their backs against the city walls, and the generals of all nationalities and nations supervised their ranks: as soon as they crossed the bridge, they entered the battlefield of a decisive battle, and many torches were erected on the enemy's terrace camps to illuminate the road, and they were not allowed to lift the pine, and to cover the light of their armor, helmets, and weapons with cloaks, sheaths, and cloth covers.

"After the first rays of the sun rose on the sea, the trumpets were blown on the walls of Dulazo, and the cannons were fired three times, and all the flags were raised on the walls. We're going to assault the enemy's camp -- from the middle of the Ishmi River, and everyone will try to fight with a hand-to-hand fight, with bows and arrows and muskets within thirty paces of the enemy at close range before casting ...... "Now, Gray. General Wallace stood at the head of the line and expressed his tactical deployment in this way.

His opinion also represents the opinion of the whole army.

The general counsellor of the Hungarian royal palace, Klembauard, was taken aback, "Why did you strike in the middle of the Ishmi River instead?" Instead of the seaside plains on the south side of Durazo, as I suggested earlier? ”

No one answered his suspicions, but it soon became clear to Clembauard that the other teams did not trust him at all, ostensibly agreeing to his plan, and then temporarily modifying it to prevent him from leaking his secrets to the Emperor of Constantinople on the other side.

Clembauard was angry, ashamed, and afraid.

He was angry that he deceived me;

It's as if I did betray others;

And the fear is that if the city attack succeeds, then Gawain and Anna will be killed, but if you are angry with him and blame him for providing false information, then all the Hungarian soldiers will be slaughtered after the city is broken!

With such mixed emotions, Clembaude looked at the Gawain camp in the distance: it was obvious that the central imperial camp terrace was sparsely lit with torches, while the fourth and fifth terraces were densely packed with torches, and it seemed that the city's previous strategy of reality had really worked: Gawain had either moved the main force to the north of the city, or to four or five terraces, and the center was empty.

And once the Ishmi River is crossed, the city's troops will be able to storm Gawain's imperial camp.